Hebrews 4:6

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Therefore it remains for some to enter it, yet those to whom it was previously proclaimed did not enter because of disobedience.

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  • Heb 3:18-19 : 18 And to whom did he swear they would never enter into his rest, except those who were disobedient? 19 So we see that they could not enter because of unbelief.
  • Heb 4:2 : 2 For we had good news proclaimed to us just as they did. But the message they heard did them no good, since they did not join in with those who heard it in faith.
  • Heb 4:9 : 9 Consequently a Sabbath rest remains for the people of God.
  • Num 14:12 : 12 I will strike them with the pestilence, and I will disinherit them; I will make you into a nation that is greater and mightier than they!”
  • Num 14:31 : 31 But I will bring in your little ones, whom you said would become victims of war, and they will enjoy the land that you have despised.
  • Isa 65:15 : 15 Your names will live on in the curse formulas of my chosen ones. The Sovereign LORD will kill you, but he will give his servants another name.
  • Matt 21:43 : 43 For this reason I tell you that the kingdom of God will be taken from you and given to a people who will produce its fruit.
  • Matt 22:9-9 : 9 So go into the main streets and invite everyone you find to the wedding banquet.’ 10 And those slaves went out into the streets and gathered all they found, both bad and good, and the wedding hall was filled with guests.
  • Luke 14:21-24 : 21 So the slave came back and reported this to his master. Then the master of the household was furious and said to his slave,‘Go out quickly to the streets and alleys of the city, and bring in the poor, the crippled, the blind, and the lame.’ 22 Then the slave said,‘Sir, what you instructed has been done, and there is still room.’ 23 So the master said to his slave,‘Go out to the highways and country roads and urge people to come in, so that my house will be filled. 24 For I tell you, not one of those individuals who were invited will taste my banquet!’”
  • Acts 13:46-47 : 46 Both Paul and Barnabas replied courageously,“It was necessary to speak the word of God to you first. Since you reject it and do not consider yourselves worthy of eternal life, we are turning to the Gentiles. 47 For this is what the Lord has commanded us:‘I have appointed you to be a light for the Gentiles, to bring salvation to the ends of the earth.’”
  • Acts 28:28 : 28 “Therefore be advised that this salvation from God has been sent to the Gentiles; they will listen!”
  • 1 Cor 7:29 : 29 And I say this, brothers and sisters: The time is short. So then those who have wives should be as those who have none,
  • Gal 3:8 : 8 And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, proclaimed the gospel to Abraham ahead of time, saying,“All the nations will be blessed in you.”

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Heb 3:15-19
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    85%

    15As it says,“Oh, that today you would listen as he speaks! Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.”

    16For which ones heard and rebelled? Was it not all who came out of Egypt under Moses’ leadership?

    17And against whom was God provoked for forty years? Was it not those who sinned, whose dead bodies fell in the wilderness?

    18And to whom did he swear they would never enter into his rest, except those who were disobedient?

    19So we see that they could not enter because of unbelief.

  • Heb 4:1-5
    5 verses
    84%

    1God’s Promised Rest Therefore we must be wary that, while the promise of entering his rest remains open, none of you may seem to have come short of it.

    2For we had good news proclaimed to us just as they did. But the message they heard did them no good, since they did not join in with those who heard it in faith.

    3For we who have believed enter that rest, as he has said,“As I swore in my anger,‘They will never enter my rest!’” And yet God’s works were accomplished from the foundation of the world.

    4For he has spoken somewhere about the seventh day in this way:“And God rested on the seventh day from all his works,”

    5but to repeat the text cited earlier:“They will never enter my rest!”

  • Heb 4:7-11
    5 verses
    82%

    7So God again ordains a certain day,“Today,” speaking through David after so long a time, as in the words quoted before,“Oh, that today you would listen as he speaks! Do not harden your hearts.”

    8For if Joshua had given them rest, God would not have spoken afterward about another day.

    9Consequently a Sabbath rest remains for the people of God.

    10For the one who enters God’s rest has also rested from his works, just as God did from his own works.

    11Thus we must make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one may fall by following the same pattern of disobedience.

  • Heb 3:10-12
    3 verses
    77%

    10“Therefore, I became provoked at that generation and said,‘Their hearts are always wandering and they have not known my ways.’

    11“As I swore in my anger,‘They will never enter my rest!’”

    12See to it, brothers and sisters, that none of you has an evil, unbelieving heart that forsakes the living God.

  • Heb 3:7-8
    2 verses
    75%

    7Exposition of Psalm 95: Hearing God’s Word in Faith Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says,“Oh, that today you would listen as he speaks!

    8“Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, in the day of testing in the wilderness.

  • Ps 95:11
    73%

    11So I made a vow in my anger,‘They will never enter into the resting place I had set aside for them.’”

  • Heb 11:39-40
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    73%

    39And these all were commended for their faith, yet they did not receive what was promised.

    40For God had provided something better for us, so that they would be made perfect together with us.

  • Heb 6:4-6
    3 verses
    72%

    4For it is impossible in the case of those who have once been enlightened, tasted the heavenly gift, become partakers of the Holy Spirit,

    5tasted the good word of God and the miracles of the coming age,

    6and then have committed apostasy, to renew them again to repentance, since they are crucifying the Son of God for themselves all over again and holding him up to contempt.

  • Heb 2:1-3
    3 verses
    71%

    1Warning Against Drifting Away Therefore we must pay closer attention to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away.

    2For if the message spoken through angels proved to be so firm that every violation or disobedience received its just penalty,

    3how will we escape if we neglect such a great salvation? It was first communicated through the Lord and was confirmed to us by those who heard him,

  • Rom 10:16
    71%

    16But not all have obeyed the good news, for Isaiah says,“Lord, who has believed our report?”

  • Heb 6:12
    70%

    12so that you may not be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and perseverance inherit the promises.

  • Num 14:22-23
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    70%

    22For all the people have seen my glory and my signs that I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and yet have tempted me now these ten times, and have not obeyed me,

    23they will by no means see the land that I swore to their fathers, nor will any of them who despised me see it.

  • Heb 10:36
    69%

    36For you need endurance in order to do God’s will and so receive what is promised.

  • Heb 9:8
    69%

    8The Holy Spirit is making clear that the way into the holy place had not yet appeared as long as the old tabernacle was standing.

  • Heb 12:25
    69%

    25Take care not to refuse the one who is speaking! For if they did not escape when they refused the one who warned them on earth, how much less shall we, if we reject the one who warns from heaven?

  • Heb 8:7
    69%

    7For if that first covenant had been faultless, no one would have looked for a second one.

  • Rom 3:3
    69%

    3What then? If some did not believe, does their unbelief nullify the faithfulness of God?

  • Rom 15:21
    69%

    21but as it is written:“Those who were not told about him will see, and those who have not heard will understand.”

  • Heb 10:26
    69%

    26For if we deliberately keep on sinning after receiving the knowledge of the truth, no further sacrifice for sins is left for us,

  • Jude 1:5
    69%

    5Now I desire to remind you(even though you have been fully informed of these facts once for all) that Jesus, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, later destroyed those who did not believe.

  • Rom 11:30
    69%

    30Just as you were formerly disobedient to God, but have now received mercy due to their disobedience,

  • Heb 5:11
    69%

    11The Need to Move on to Maturity On this topic we have much to say and it is difficult to explain, since you have become sluggish in hearing.

  • Isa 28:12
    69%

    12In the past he said to them,“This is where security can be found. Provide security for the one who is exhausted! This is where rest can be found.” But they refused to listen.

  • Heb 6:17
    69%

    17In the same way God wanted to demonstrate more clearly to the heirs of the promise that his purpose was unchangeable, and so he intervened with an oath,

  • Heb 12:17
    69%

    17For you know that later when he wanted to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no opportunity for repentance, although he sought the blessing with tears.

  • Heb 11:6
    68%

    6Now without faith it is impossible to please him, for the one who approaches God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.

  • Num 32:11
    68%

    11‘Because they have not followed me wholeheartedly, not one of the men twenty years old and upward who came from Egypt will see the land that I swore to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob,

  • Ps 106:24
    68%

    24They rejected the fruitful land; they did not believe his promise.

  • Heb 11:13
    68%

    13These all died in faith without receiving the things promised, but they saw them in the distance and welcomed them and acknowledged that they were strangers and foreigners on the earth.